Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: level42 on July 28, 2011, 11:49:31 PM
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So I brought back some "toys" from the US that of course have US plugs. Mainly the iPad and my son bought a 3DS (still had money from his birthday back in March...).
Now, the iPad charger is called "duckhead" and has a nice set-up. You can pull out the top part (that connects to the outlet). Then you have a connector to which you can connect any standard two-lead mains cable. Works great, but doesn't look very nice. So I wanted a European duckhead instead of the US one..
Here comes Dealextreme:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/apple-compatible-interchange-ac-adapter-plug-european-13354
Wahoo.
For my son's 3DS I went with another, even cheaper solution:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/flat-to-round-power-plug-convertor-3529
Can't get much simpler and look at the price...I ordered three...
Also ordered a HDMI cable. I have been looking at the regular pots where you can buy HDMI cables. The prices are TOTALLY CRAZY. Anything from 45 Euro and up !!!!! For a piece of wire !
So I chose this one, which looked pretty nice and I'm sure will work fine:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/quality-1080p-mini-hdmi-to-hdmi-1-3-cable-1-4m-length-2649
Yeah, I know some people will talk about "high quality cable" but let me tell you, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0 on digital cables. As long as they don't get too long, you're going to be doing great with these.
And it's only for occasional use (hooking up my HD camcorder to my - still to be bought !- LED Full HD TV :D
So the duckhead, 3 "flat to round" adapters and the HDMI cable for less than 10 Euro's. Shipped !
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Well, not always.....
I received two Toslink cables from them today. I ordered two with a length of 1,52 meters each. I unpack them and they are WAY shorter than that, I just measured them and they are only 1.00 meter !!!
Even worse: the connectors don't fit ! That's right, it's standard TOSlink. I had to more or less force one into my DVD player, but the other end I cannot connect to my Sony Receiver however much I try.
I sent them a complaint an posted a negative feedback on the article, let's see if they post it.....
http://dx.com/digital-optical-fiber-optic-audio-cable-152cm-length-102187
Lesson learned: Only buy stuff that has been reviewed positively. Either they will ditch the negative reviews (so there will be NO reviews for a product, or no-one has bought it yet and you are the first guinea-pig....
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I always go to kabeltje.com for this sort of stuff. Also very cheap. For one cable at Mediamarkt, they sell you 10 on average. Now you know how MM pays rent of their A locations.